Karly Nayli

My Aunt Kelly recently gave birth to her first child, Karly. I was so excited and still am excited about it—don’t get me wrong. But labor is a LONGGGGGG process. I thought “Oh we’re going in at midnight, Karly should be here by morning!” Man, was I wrong.

We arrived at the hospital around midnight. My aunt and uncle were in the truck ahead of us and my mom, grandparents, other aunt, and I were in my grandparents SUV behind them. Of course, after we got there, we were so excited that we couldn’t sleep. (There was also nothing to sleep on by the way… so I pushed two chairs together and made do with that). Anyways, we stayed up talking and watching TV, going on the internet to try to keep ourselves busy.

When 6:30 AM rolled around we were starving and didn’t want hospital food so we went down the road to Denny’s. I practically fell asleep at the table. I had 3 cups of coffee—I NEVER drink coffee either. So when we got back to the hospital, Sue Lanpher, a family friend, showed up with her camera to get plenty of pictures. My grandmother came out of the room that my aunt was in and told us that they had started giving her Pitocin to speed up the birthing process. After a few hours she was only 5 cm dilated, even after they induced her. She wasn’t making any progress.

To pass time, my brother showed up when my dad went into work since he works right in the hospital, so we walked around and got free food with my dad’s employee card. The anticipation was killing me so I can only imagine what it was doing to my aunt.

9:33 PM rolled around on February 17 and little Karly was finally born! It was one of the most memorable days of my life and I’m so happy I got to experience it.